Magda Babina
Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Biography
Magda Babina completed her PhD in Biochemistry in 1999 from Free University Berlin, Germany. She has studied Mast Cell Biology throughout her career, with emphasis on MCs in humans. She is a Senior Scientist and group Leader at Charite, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, and has published more than 50 papers. She has been a member of the FANTOM consortium (led by RIKEN in Japan) since 2010, one of the largest life science consortia in the world. This collaboration inspired her to obtain a more comprehensive and complete view of human MCs through systems biology approaches in collaboration with bioinformaticians.